"The Wagon" is a song by alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr., released on their 1991 album Green Mind.
Featuring lyrics inspired by the band's use of station wagons for transportation in its early days, the song was written by J Mascis and was one of the three songs on Green Mind to include drummer Murph.
[5][6] Melody Maker named "The Wagon" one of its two singles of the week, with writer Everett True describing the song as "Sheer exhilaration!
"[7] Tom Maginnis of AllMusic praised the song's wall-of-sound production and Murph's drum work, concluding that the song "sets the bar so high as an album opener that it's hard for what follows to match such intensity.
"[4] Pitchfork said the song "snarls with nearly as much pop hookcraft and gnarly guitar spizz as Bug's opener 'Freak Scene'"[8] Greg Kot of Chicago Tribune described the song as "pulverizing,"[9] while Michael Nelson of Stereogum called the track an "ebullient and wonderful rocker.